The system time on both cluster nodes must be within 90 seconds of
drift of each other otherwise the time difference will be too large
and the DHCP daemon processes will not communicate.

Look at the pool status section at Status > DHCP leases. All
defined pools (often 1 per interface) are listed here. If any of the
pools are in a state other than “normal”, then debug the problem.

If interfaces have been used and then removed they could be out of
sync between the two nodes, which can lead to inconsistencies in the
failover numbering and can make certain configurations fail. This
should be fixed on current releases, but in some cases may still
require hand-edit corrections to config.xml to make sure primary
and secondary nodes match.

Stop and restart the DHCP daemon from Status > Services on both
nodes and check the status after a few moments

Both nodes must be running the same version of pfSense. Update both
nodes to the newest available release if they do not match. Older
versions may have problems with various aspects of DHCP failover that
have already been corrected.

If all else fails, stop the DHCP daemon on both nodes, remove the
DHCP lease database from /var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases*, then
start the daemons again.

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